Over the past year, we have observed three instances in which patients with advanced cancer received blood products solely for the purpose of altering a laboratory value to satisfy eligibility ...

Safe blood practices go beyond technology and laboratory testing. They require a culture of quality, vigilance, continuous ...

New clinical practice guidelines from the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) say that in most hemodynamically stable hospitalized adults, transfused red blood cells (RBCs ...

This has been codified in the US Army Institute of Surgical Research practice guidelines. [3] Holcomb and colleagues sought to determine whether a more balanced massive transfusion strategy in ...

To provide evidence-based guidance on the use of platelet transfusion in people with cancer. This guideline updates and replaces the previous ASCO platelet transfusion guideline published initially in ...

An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has developed guidelines for new strategies that ...

There is an increasing demand for single donor platelet transfusions due to intensive chemotherapy and blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation. Platelet transfusions however are expensive and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with severe thrombocytopenia who did not receive prophylactic transfusion before catheter placement had ...

Using a quality improvement (QI) framework, we aimed to reduce the number of transfusions of packed red blood cells (pRBC) through adoption of evidence based more restrictive transfusion thresholds. A ...

Fewer warfighters have died from bleeding complications in forward-based hospitals since 2006, when the military changed its protocol of blood transfusions used for such cases, according to a study ...